I'm trying to call an external API in Firebase Functions but i always get a timeout. What can be the issue causing this?

Here is my code

exports.getCountryData = functions.https.onRequest((request, response) => {

const https = require('https');
const options = {
  hostname: "api-football-v1.p.rapidapi.com/v3",
  path: '/fixtures?next=5',
  headers: {
    "x-rapidapi-host": "api-football-v1.p.rapidapi.com/v3",
    "x-rapidapi-key": "my-api-key"
  }
};
  var req = https.get(options, (resp) => {
    let data = '';
    resp.on('data', (chunk) => { data += chunk; });
    resp.on('end', () => {
        var result = JSON.parse(data);
        console.log("Api fetched successfully");

        console.log(result);
   
        response.send({ fulfillmentText: result});
      });
    }).on("error", (err) => { console.log("Error: " + err.message); });
});